Young Adult Quotes

And as her voice carried in the darkness, he wasn’t sure where the borders between her story and his dream were. But he saw no more nightmares; he dreamed of a noble Sky Ghost and his little daughter, which he taught everything she needed to become a better warrior than he was.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

She looked herself in the eyes and saw that there was nothing left. No sense. It must have gone through that hole in her chest along with everything else.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

She had every right to be harsh, mean, and independent. Every damn right. And yet he had a feeling that she needed care more than anyone else in the world.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

...their voices are quieter than the other groups around them, but their body language speaks volumes.

~ Sandy Hall

I'll die of embarrassment. At least you'll die knowing.

~ Sandy Hall

It was like I couldn't think of any words. Now I can think of about nine million. How many words are in the English language?Not the point.

~ Sandy Hall

It's so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that's the worst in your life, but to everybody else it's just an ordinary night.

~ R.j. Palacio

My emotions are spiraling out of control. I never promised I would be logical at a time like this!

~ Sandy Hall

I feel like this is a horror story. That's how scared I am right now.Don't be scared.That doesn't help.

~ Sandy Hall

Dead yet? Gus answered.I smirked. Not yet, but the night's still young.Here's hoping.

~ Jessica Shirvington

Grandma's house had the atmosphere of a Tupperware box left out in the sun. Like a tropical flower, she had to be kept warm and moist at all times, or she would wilt and die.

~ Matthew Crow

I look at her suspiciously. ... Nothing is ever short and easy in this class.

~ Sandy Hall

The others could believe that she was that way because she lost her parents so early, but Peter knew better. She was strong, confident, and never broken.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

I am an Ultimate,” she vowed, the walls of her heart quaking with ferocity and determination. “And I have thepower to do the impossible.

~ Sheeza Iqbal

All I knew was that in a way I couldn't explain, his hug matched his stare.

~ Juliana Mae

Biking up the same mile-and-a-half long asphalt hill is so much harder when I know that at the end of the journey I’ll either be an outlaw, or I’ll be dead.

~ E.j. Squires

Well, as I see it, the only way to win is to play the game and beat everyone at it. And I mean, who’s to say you can’t make your own rules?” I say.“Spoken like a true outlaw,” Nicholas retorts.I smirk, a little guiltily. “I suppose. Thank goodness you went along with it. Anyone else would have refused to register me or left me to Master Douglas.” Shivers go up my spine.“Partners in crime.”I laugh at first, but then think about it. “That’s kind of sad.”“Or exciting.” He stares at me for a moment. “Well, speaking as your registrar, you need to get some rest.”“Are you ever going to let me have any fun?” I ask.“Not until the sun stops shining.”“Well, technically it goes down every night…” I say.“Not in this country.

~ E.j. Squires

Shadows ran all around her and someone was talking to her but it was all just white noise. Goodbye solo she would never perform. Goodbye perfect night that never got the chance to end in Garrett’s arms. Garrett, oh god. Goodbye love of her life, she had loved him and with the thought of never seeing him again her body gave up a single tear. It escaped her eye and coursed through the blood and dirt on her cheek making a single clean streak as the blackness took over.

~ Renee Jean

The Arum are nothing more than what a human would call a parasite. They are not worth the filthy floor you lie upon.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

He watched her curiously from below, feeling as someone might feel watching a butterfly sit nearby, afraid to scare it off with a sound of voice or an abrupt movement.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

You’re easy to read, Ivy, but the whole book of you is complicated.

~ Amy Engel

Dear Matthew-There's one more thing I didn't get to tell you that night in my bedroom. Here it is: I love you. I'm in love with you. I have been for a long time. This might seem like a strange thing for me to say given the fact we aren't speaking to each other. But I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back. It's sad perhaps, but not tragic, unless you dwell forever in the pursuit of their elusive affections.

~ Cammie Mcgovern

My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.

~ Amy Engel

If we keep punishing people for what their parents or their ancestors have done, the world as a whole can never move forward. Society will never grow.

~ Jennifer Wilson

Thirty-two steps until Haley Tremaine entered hell. Thirty-two steps until she walked into the smell of alcohol and burned microwaveable meals, into a place where fear overwhelmed.

~ Krystal Wade

Calling a book Young Adult is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. People used to say they like to read books about romance, true crime, comedy, horror or science fiction. But these days people simply say they like to read Young Adult books. As if that were a topic. But that's the thing: Young Adult is not a topic, it's a level of censorship. Saying I like Young Adult books is just another way of saying I like books that have been dumbed down for children. I like books with no big words and no difficult abstract concepts. Nothing that will strain my brain. People like to brag that they used to start reading at an early age, as if that were a badge of honor, a sign of intelligence. Nobody brags about when they started to watch TV. But books are being dumbed down so much these days, it's really not a sign of great intelligence when you're a grown up and you struggle your way through Green Eggs and Ham.

~ Oliver Markus

He looked up at the stars as the storm closed in and saw them extinguished, one-by-one, until just two remained. They glimmered and shone through gaps in the clouds like two great eyes in the darkness, burning on a demon’s face that chased him across the sea.

~ Brooke Burgess

There are demons within. And they're the deadliest kind.

~ Karren Renz Seña

I work my way through the rest of my dates, but I'm only there in body. The boys usually give up after the first hour; it's difficult to have a conversation all by yourself. My ratings plummet, but at least my air-time is minimal now, I'm not offering much in the way of entertainment these days.

~ Siobhan Davis

The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.

~ Siobhan Davis

Mom used to tell us stories of these bogeymen when we were kids, and Lizzy would crawl into my bed so she could fall asleep. Stories of the monsters who forced us underground, and when the force field faltered, would snatch us from our homes.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

I'm already under the covers when he comes in. I watch as he takes off his shirt and jeans, and climbs into bed beside me. On any other occasion, the sight and feel of his near naked body would send my blood pressure into orbit, but I'm so exhausted by the events of today that I'm incapable of feeling anything even close to desire. And he doesn't ask anything of me.

~ Siobhan Davis

Puberty corrupts - that’s a fact, and it corrupts without consent – that’s the concern.

~ Mohit Parikh

She didn't need friends; she needed to be a bigger bitch.Chubby Chaser, 11/21/14. Available for preorder on Amazon.

~ Kahoko Yamada

Nothing was better than good sex.Chubby Chaser, 11/21/14. Available for preorder on Amazon.

~ Kahoko Yamada

Ah, youth!It was a beautiful night...The moon was out of orbit.The stars were awry.But everything else was exactlyas it should have been.

~ Roman Payne

Find our way out, Greenie. Solve the buggin' Maze and find our way out.

~ James Dashner

We're both whisper-screaming at each other. All I can think is this is the worst possible way to break up with somebody.

~ Andrea Portes

I don't like you, Park. I think I live for you. I don't think I even breathe when we're not together. Which means when I see you on Monday morning, it's been like sixty hours since I've taken a breath. That's probably why I'm so crabby, and why I snap at you. All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I do when we're together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?

~ Rainbow Rowell

The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often,a bar cursed because of a girl who died of a drug overdose in the basement, we put a few coins in the jukebox;chose “Angel Band” by Johnny Cash and sat down at the bar,ordered a soda, you wanted a whiskey on the rocks.We saw the coal miner who moved here from West Virginiaknocking back liquor like I drink sweet tea.No one asked why he was so solemn today.It was warm. It was relatively quiet.To anyone else, this place could feel sinister.But to us, it was freedom. It was a hiding place.No one was ever here long enough to know us.And we liked it that way.

~ Taylor Rhodes